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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 Álvaro Colom, President of Guatemala.Image: Agência Brasil. In a videotape recorded prior to his murder on Sunday, Guatemalan lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg accused President of Guatemala Álvaro Colom and his wife Sandra Torres of complicity in his violent death. “If you are watching this message,” Rosenberg told the camera, “it is because … Read more

Friday, June 24, 2005 In a major decision, the Supreme Court of the United States has expanded the right of government to seize private property for public good by allowing the city of New London, Connecticut to invoke eminent domain and seize homeowners’ property for economic development reasons. In a closely-divided decision, 5–4, the court … Read more

A compilation of brief news reports for Monday, May 7, 2007. Existing and planned gas pipelines in Europe A 30 meter section of a gas pipeline in Luka (near Kiev) in Ukraine has been destroyed by an explosion. Although supplies to Europe via this pipeline have stopped, Ukrainian Energy Minister Georgi E. Boyko said that supplies … Read more

Thursday, June 23, 2011 This mosaic was created from two high-resolution images that were captured by the narrow-angle camera when NASA’s Cassini spacecraft flew past Enceladus and through the jets on Nov. 21, 2009. Image: NASA/JPL/SSI. NASA’s Cassini–Huygens spacecraft has discovered evidence for a large-scale saltwater reservoir beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. … Read more

Monday, December 8, 2008 Jensen Button driving one of the two 2008 Honda F1 cars at the Malaysian Grand Prix Image: flickr user kuda2001. More details have emerged over the weekend after the surprise announcement last week of Honda‘s intention to sell its Formula One racing team, Honda Racing F1. The team management, Nick Fry … Read more

Thursday, August 5, 2010 File:Google Wave.jpg Technology company Google has decided to flip the switch on the Google Wave social-networking service. Image: Dshedai.(Image missing from Commons: image; log) Google has decided to retire the Google Wave social-networking service after one year, citing lack of user adoption. Urs Hölzle, Google senior vice president for operations, said … Read more

Sunday, February 19, 2006 The United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said that U.S. public diplomacy efforts need to do more in the media to communicate a message friendly to democracy. “We’ll need to do all we can to attract supporters to our efforts and to correct the lies that are being told, which … Read more

Michael Hartung (right) and Kate MacLoughlin (left) at an Australian Paralympic Committee press conference earlier in the gameImage: Laura Hale. Sunday, September 9, 2012 London, England — Yesterday, Wikinews interviewed Michael Hartung, the Australian Deputy Chef de Mission at the Australian team quarters in the Paralympic Village. ((Hawkeye7)) What does the Deputy Chef de Mission … Read more

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 Almost 600 desperate family members and others remained camped outside the Pasta de Conchos coal mine near San Juan de Sabinas, in the northern Mexico state of Coahuila where 65 Mexican miners were trapped by a gas explosion around 2:30 a.m. (0830 GMT) Sunday. Some are threatening to storm the mine … Read more

Monday, March 15, 2010 Benet Academy Redwings 68 54 Glenbard East Rams Benet Academy Redwings logo Image: Benet Academy. Top-seeded Glenbard East High School was expected to win the Class 4A Neuqua Valley High School Sectional championship on Friday night. Yet with a lot of determination and a strong defense, the Benet Academy varsity boys … Read more